The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 19 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte DONALD C. MEAD _____________ Appeal No. 2000-1501 Application No. 08/745,587 ______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before KRASS, FLEMING and LALL, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-13, all of the pending claims. The invention is directed to the transmission of information with digital signal processing. Signals representing aural or visual communications are encoded and 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007